Catalogue of the Fourth Exhibition of Pictures
Subtitle: illustrative of The British Poets, and The Bible.
By: painted for T. Macklin, by the Artists of Britain :
Publisher: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street
Published: 1791
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Bible.
Other titles: Catalogue of the Fourth Exhibition of Pictures, painted for T. Macklin ...; Proposals for Macklin's Bible ...; Proposals for Macklin's British Poets ...
Work titles: Gallery of Poets (Pall-Mall)
Notes: 'Advertisement', signed: 'Thomas Macklin', precedes 'Catalogue', which is followed by: 'Proposals for Macklin's Bible; dedicated, by permission, to His Majesty', and 'Proposals for Macklin's British Poets ... ', with 'Conditions' on verso and recto of following leaf (page 51).

'Exhibitions offered an opportunity for only a temporary display of art, but during this period [i.e. 1769-1850] various attempts were made to create more permanent settings ... ' Many of these seem to have been ill-judged like the 'Shakespeare Gallery ,initiated by the printseller John Boydell in 1786. The Gallery opened in Pall Mall in 1789 ... and  for a time it was a fashionable, if controversial part of London art life. But the international market for the gallery engravings was cut off by war withFrance, and this and other problems led Boydell to declare bankruptcy , selling the gallery by lottery in 1805. A similar fate ended other gallery projects, such as Henry Fuesli's Milton Gallery, Thomas Macklin's Poet's Gallery and Robert Bowyer's Historical and Biblical Galleries' [Dict. of Art, v. 19, p. 588]

At head of title: Gallery of Poets, Pall-Mall.

ESTC447M1 [var; 4th Exhibition only].